Chocolate Banana Sunflower Butter Truffles {Paleo, Vegan, Nut Free}

These sinfully delicious, easy no-bake Chocolate Banana Sunflower Butter Truffles are surprisingly healthy treats you’ll want to make again and again once you try them! Creamy on the inside with a dark chocolate shell outside, they’re Paleo, Vegan, nut free, and contain just 5 ingredients.

Every recipe needs an exciting story behind it, right? Well, this one does not have that. Instead, it tells the story of me being lazy, not wanting to bake, and also not wanting to give up an extra egg or two to make banana cookies like my kids wanted. (True story – when we’re low on eggs I go into emergency don’t-waste-the-eggs mode.)

Add on top of that me trying to be a rebel and eat chocolate when everyone seems to be avoiding it this week – and you have a recipe for, well, this one: Chocolate Banana Sunflower Butter Truffles. I’m digging the “truffle” part of the recipe title, since I’ve never made “truffles” before. I think it’s fitting, but you make this first and then let me know.

Anyway, sometimes laziness works out for the best and you get a recipe so, so good that your husband genuinely questions whether you created it all on your own (akin to asking your child if he/she really drew that picture.) He always second guesses the very best ones (really just the desserts), so I’m taking it as a compliment.

All by myself, promise.

In other news, the forecast is still showing rain for Sunday and I keep checking every couple of hours or so, just for validation that I should in fact skip the race. I told you that I’m fixating and being dramatic – what’s with that? I guess it’s my indecisiveness/insecurity/runner’s guilt (is that a thing?) playing out.

I’d much rather get a run in when it’s not raining Saturday, and have Sunday morning to get my daughters ready for their dance recitals. So let me just leave it at that and stop checking the weather, please, I’m annoying myself and I’ve had enough. I’ll have some more chocolate now to calm down thankyouverymuch.

In even more other news, (??) I can’t wait to do yoga after writing up this recipe, as long as I don’t get distracted on Instagram or something while writing it and actually have 30 minutes left before I have to pick Drew up at school. I’ve been back to doing some of Tim Senesi’s videos again, and they’re definitely giving me the core work I’ve been slacking on for a while. But you’re not here to read about core work, you’re here for the chocolate, I get it. So here it is! Chocolate Banana Sunflower Butter Truffles!

Chocolate Banana Sunflower Butter Truffles {Paleo & Vegan}

Chocolate Banana Sunflower Butter Truffles {Paleo & Vegan}

These sinfully delicious, easy no-bake Chocolate Banana Sunflower Butter Truffles are surprisingly healthy treats you'll want to make again and again once you try them! Creamy on the inside with a dark chocolate shell outside, they're Paleo, Vegan, Nut Free and contain just 5 ingredients.

For the Chocolate Shell

Instructions

In a medium bowl, combine the mashed or pureed bananas with the sunflower seed butter and mix well until smooth.

Add 1/4 cup of the coconut flour until fully combined. Then, mix in 2 more tbsp of coconut flour until smooth (you may or may not add the last tbsp after chilling, depending on how sticky your mixture is)

Now, taste the mixture (yes I want you to taste it!) If you'd like a sweeter inside, add the 1 tsp of maple syrup.

Chill the mixture in the refrigerator while you make the chocolate:

In a small saucepan over very low heat, melt the dark chocolate chips and coconut oil while stirring continuously. Once melted, promptly remove from heat and set aside.

Remove the banana-sunflower butter mixture from the refrigerator, and, if still very sticky, add 1/2 - 1 more tbsp of coconut flour and mix well*

Now, roll into 16 balls (mixture should still be a bit sticky) and put on a parchment lined baking sheet. Dip each ball in the melted chocolate mixture and put back on the parchment paper.

Once all the balls have been dipped, drizzle the remaining chocolate over the truffles. Chill until set, then serve! Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator.

Recipe Notes

*Coconut flour expands quite a bit and a little goes a long way. Add little by little, waiting in between additions to make sure you don't add too much.

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About Michele

More than a little into running and paleo recipes (yoga now too!) but I'm not here to rain on your grains (or anything else) so come along for the ride! I do a little too much of everything (except cleaning), and I enjoy laughing at myself. As long as I'm the one making the jokes, that is. Just kidding. So bring me your angst, your appetite and your frying pan and climb aboard!

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Reader Reviews & Comments

After meal prepping last weekend I only had 1 egg left, so I had Rob go buy more while he was out on Sunday. I somehow haven’t used any eggs since then! But its better to know I have them, and I know I will use a ton over the weekend.
We are getting new bedroom furniture this weekend so will need to move our old stuff and try to organize all our clothes, but after that i should be able to relax a bit! Hope you have a great weekend!

I would conserve the eggs too! Love how simple this recipe is and that it involves coconut flour bc I am all about coconut flour these days. I used make (and sell) cake truffles which were so good yet so involved that this recipe makes me much happier to not be in the kitchen forever.

I am the same way with eggs and nut butter! Every time the jars are low I have a mini panic attack. Good luck with the forecast! It’s been raining here for days like crazy. I thought I might need to build an arc!

I must have veggies in my house. Right now we have none except for a tomato because we are going out of town. So all we have are condiments and alcohol. So essentially we are a) back in college or b) bachelors.
These are so necessary.

Eheheh! I’m that way with bananas, oats, and chocolate — emergency panic mode. And it’s especially hard now that it’s cold and almost impossible to find ripe bananas. I went into 3 different stores over the past couple days and each one had nothing but greenies. Oh, and I don’t understand this avoiding chocolate nonsense. Don’t people know it’s full of antioxidants? 😉

I’m the same way with eggs! We go through them so fast and some days I’d rather not go to the store, so I try to conserve them. These look so rich and chocolately – I don’t think I could practice portion control if I made these!

Creamy inside of love!!!! Love the banana in there and obviously the sunflower butter! My mom was telling me her coworker just tried “some sun butter something” and I was like you mean sunflower seed butter, and she was like yea, sounded like something you would eat. And I’m like…mom…sunflower butter is never NOT in the fridge!! (Clueless!)

These look and sound amazing!! I love using coconut flour in bites like these because of the tremendous texture it gives. I do love sunbutter, but my family prefers almond, so I think I’ll probably have to alter that. Or just make a batch only for me 😉

If I don’t have at least a carton of eggs I go into panic mode. Eggs are my go to for any time I am in a time crunch..which is too often.
These looks simple to make and delicious I am going to have to let some bananas get overly ripe 🙂

Dave can’t have tree nuts or peanuts so we have an abundance of sunbutter! And I’m constantly looking for a reason to have chocolate lol! This looks super yummy and healthy enough that I would easily have 2-3 🙂 Pinning!

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